This review contains spoilers
(EDIT: I wrote this review when I first played Outer Wilds, and was having a lot of thoughts about it, having played the game again 3 times already and now being one of my favorite games ever, this review does not represent my current thoughts on this amazing game, maybe one day I'll write another one, more in line with what I think nowadays.)
This was one of the best experiences i've ever had with any type of media, but at the same time was a frustrating one...
Outer Wilds is a BRILLIANT game at basically every aspect, the world is amazing, the graphics, music, gameplay (SPECIALLY gameplay), and at last, story. But that's the thing, i do really love the concept and story of this game, but at the same time, i was really bummed out at the end of it, because i felt like all the progress i made discovering everything about the Nomai and their decay was worthless at the end of things... For ME, at least, the goal of the game was, somehow, to stop the supernova or something, but the "nothingness" at the climax of the game was cathartic but at the same time a let dow (FOR ME), it felt like the 20+ hours that i put in the game was for nothing, and i get it, this is one of the topics of the game, the finality of things, the meaningless action that we take sometimes, all of that.
The thing that made me fell frustrated, is that the game did everything so GREAT until the very very very end, discover the history of this Solar System is awesome, and every time you connected the dots on the story and realized something mind blowing was something i'll never forget, but all of that discovery, all of the effort, all of that, was for nothing...
And yeah, that's kind of the thing that this game is going for, and i loved basically everyhting about it, but it felt like something was missing to finish this MASTERPIECE...
This was one of the best experiences i've ever had with any type of media, but at the same time was a frustrating one...
Outer Wilds is a BRILLIANT game at basically every aspect, the world is amazing, the graphics, music, gameplay (SPECIALLY gameplay), and at last, story. But that's the thing, i do really love the concept and story of this game, but at the same time, i was really bummed out at the end of it, because i felt like all the progress i made discovering everything about the Nomai and their decay was worthless at the end of things... For ME, at least, the goal of the game was, somehow, to stop the supernova or something, but the "nothingness" at the climax of the game was cathartic but at the same time a let dow (FOR ME), it felt like the 20+ hours that i put in the game was for nothing, and i get it, this is one of the topics of the game, the finality of things, the meaningless action that we take sometimes, all of that.
The thing that made me fell frustrated, is that the game did everything so GREAT until the very very very end, discover the history of this Solar System is awesome, and every time you connected the dots on the story and realized something mind blowing was something i'll never forget, but all of that discovery, all of the effort, all of that, was for nothing...
And yeah, that's kind of the thing that this game is going for, and i loved basically everyhting about it, but it felt like something was missing to finish this MASTERPIECE...